A Bumper Crop of Bureaucracy

Tom Perez's Labor enforcers go after the family farm.

Updated Jan. 2, 2014 4:23 p.m. ET

Watching Team Obama habitually assert that it can rewrite the Affordable Care Act on the fly, one wonders whether anyone in the executive branch still believes in following the law. Don't look to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for reassurance.

Since the 1970s, annual federal appropriations bills have explicitly prohibited the federal workplace overseer from descending on small family farms. Specifically, OSHA...